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(Application filed May 8, 1899.)

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rvrrnn STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

FRANCIS K. GANTER, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

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SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 642,105, dated January 30, 1900.

Application filed May 3, 1899. Serial No. 715,420. (No model.)

To (all whom it 72mg concern.-

Be it known that 1, FRANCIS X. GAXTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Show-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improved means for seen ring together the plates of glass showcases.

The object of the invention is to provide an improved construction of metal fasteners to be attached by screw-bolts and in which the heads of all the screws shall be either concealed or entered to their position from the interior of the case.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a broken vertical cross-section of a glass showcase in which one form of my metal fastener is shown applied to the top and front plates. Fig. 1 is a view of the front plate and shows the notch which receives the angle-plate. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of one corner, showing the metal fastener applied to the front and one of the end plates. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the angle-plate of the metal fastener seen in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4

is a vertical section of a portion of the top and front plates, showing another very desirable Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofthe saddle form of angle-plate fas; tener shown in Fig. 4:.

In this showcase neither a wooden nor metallic frame for retaining the glass plates is employed. The construction and material of the bottom A and back B are unimportant. The front plate c, end plates (l, and top plate 2 are all polished glass. The desidcratum is a strong metal fastening to unite two plates and provision for screws which shall be entered to their position from the interior of the ease or from such parts as will result in the concealment of the screw-heads.

I employ an angle-plate f 9, having a bolthole in each of its two sides, and one sidef of the angle is let into a cut-away or notchf in the edge of one plate, which in Fig. l is the front plate 0, while the other side g of the angle takes position on the inner surface of said front plate. Before securing the an gle-plate in this position, however, the said side f will be placed in proper position on the screw-threaded socket '1: and is tightened.

This confines one side of the metal angle-plate to the glass top plate. The two glass plates 0 and e are then placed in position, so that the metal sidef will fit in the notch f in the edge of the glass plate 0. This results in covering and concealing the head of the screw j. A second tubular socket 7?, just like the one already described, is then entered in a hole formed in the front plate 0, and a second screwy" is then entered point end firstthrough the hole in the side 9 of the angle-plate and into the screw-threaded socket t and tightened. This leaves the head of the screw 3' in the interior of the case. It will be seen that the glass plates are strongly united and that the only metal exposed on the exterior are the two socket-heads t" d and the thin edge of one sidefof the angle-plate. Y

The foregoing description is applicable to the glass plates and metal fastener shown in Fig. 2.

In Figs. f and 5 a very desirable form is shown. Here the metal angle-plate has three sides fg h in the form of a saddle. 9 have bolt-holes, and the third side It has a larger hole for a tubular socket. The metal sidef sits in a notch f in the glass plate the same as in Figs. 1 and 2, but the two metal sides g 71, take on opposite surfaces of the front plate. After the first screwj (see Fi 4) has been entered to position the second tubular socket 2' is entered into the large hole in the metal side It and also into the hole formed in the glass plate 0, and then the seo- 0nd screw j is entered point end first through the side 9 and into the socket i and tightened. Thus here, again, the screw-heads are either concealed or are in the interior of the-case.

I have shown and thus far described myinvention as being applicable to the glass plates of show-cases; but I design to apply the improvement, and it is obvious that it is applicable, to glass plates for show-windows, glass The sides f 8 5 aquariums, burial-cases, and glass monuments. 7

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a glass case the combination of two glass plates one overlapping; the edge of the other; an angle-plate, f, g, having a bolt-hole in each of its two sides and one side let into a notch cut into the edge of one plate While the other side is on the inner surface of the same plate; a tubular socket, 11, having a head at its closed end and entered in a hole in the overlapping plate with its head on the outside; a screw, j, entered from the inside entered through from the inside hole in the I other side of the a'ngleplate and into the second tubular socket, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two. witnesses.

FRAN 018 X. GANTER.

WVitnesses:

T1108. 0. BAILEY, CHARLES B. MANN, Jr. 

